Tag: Congress
The Congress, in an embarrassing slip in Madhya Pradesh, elected a youth wing general secretary who has long left the party and is now in the BJP. The leader's "election" has now been cancelled but the blunder is being held up by Congress critics as symptomatic of the party's disconnect with ground realities.....
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah, who arrived in Guwahati on Friday midnight, would formally launch the ruling saffron party's campaign for next year's Assam assembly polls on Saturday. ....
Former West Bengal minister Suvendu Adhikari, who recently jumped ship from the Trinamool to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said on Saturday that he feels really ashamed to be a part of the Trinamool Congress for 21 long years of his political career.....
Just a day before the foundation day of the party, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has left for short personal trip abroad. ....
Congress workers on Wednesday held a protest against the demolition of the decades old "Pracheen" Hanuman Mandir in Chandni Chowk. The party alleged that the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation with the sanction of Delhi's Arvind Kejriwal government colluded in the demolition. ....
Facebook, which had removed a video in which US President Donald Trump urged his supporters, who forced their way into the Capitol, "to go home" but repeated his allegations of fraud in the presidential elections, and blocked his account, announced on Thursday that the restrictions will continue till the end of his term on January 20. ....
The Congress on Wednesday flayed BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blast case, over her remark indirectly equating Mahatma Gandhi's killer Nathu Ram Godse to a "true patriot" and also took a dig at the Prime Minister on the issue.....
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he was not scared of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he was a "clean person" and he would continue to fight alone even if no one sided with him. ....
A day after 15 migrant construction workers, including a child, were crushed to death by a truck in Gujarat's Surat, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Wednesday slammed the Modi government at the Centre, saying it is time that the Prime Minister woke up to reality and not repeat the statistics about toilets, housing and open defection-free numbers fed by bureaucrats. ....
Congress MLA Gajendra Singh Shaktawat passed away on Wednesday morning in Delhi due to a liver ailment. He is the fourth MLA from Rajasthan to have died in the last six months. ....